Australia’s biggest moon cake, Cabramatta Moon Festival

Australia’s biggest moon cake at Cabramatta Moon Festival.

Noodlies, Sydney food blog gets up close and personal with Australia’s biggest moon cake – plus some of the other mouth-watering food at the Cabramatta Moon Festival.

Cabramatta Moon Festival is always a frantic, frenzied, fun experience. With around 90,000 party people, it’s big – larger than life, big. That’s even more so this year with the St.George Australia’s Biggest Moon Cake – a favourite feature of this year’s festival.

Weighing in at a gargantuan 70.5kg, this sweet mouthful is 73cm wide and 13cm high, breaking a previous record set in 2009.

The cake was commissioned by St.George to help celebrate Moon Festival and as a thank you to their loyal customers. The cake design and mould was created by Etcom, a specialist multicultural agency (where noodlies works by day) – did you notice the koalas in the east-meets-west design? The record-breaking cake was baked by head baker Larry Leung of Saint Honore.

Noodlies, had the honour today of officially measuring the cake and declaring, with Mark Ferguson of Channel 7 news, that this cake, indeed has smashed the previous record in terms of size and weight.

St.George Australia’s biggest moon cake was a hit with the crowd, young and old a like. It looks stunning in front of a backdrop of Chinese lions and St.George’s Happy the dragon, symbolic of Australia’s multicultural society, heh?

This year, the food on offer at the Festival is also incredibly diverse.

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Sorry to have missed this. That mooncake looks incredible! I love the size of it. Did you get to taste any?? I have been thinking about making a cake-sized (20cms round) giant mooncake (although not as giant as this), although I realised it wouldn’t have that pretty decoration on the top without a mould..